JANUARY 12, 2015 - A healthy 2015 may not lead to a wealthy one. Employers expect healthcare costs to rise 6.5 percent this year, according to the National Business Group on Health. And employees are shouldering an increasingly large burden of the costs.
A new report from The Commonwealth Fund found that over the past decade, the cost of employer-provided healthcare grew faster than incomes—with some employee contributions rising as much as 175 percent.
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